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Today in History -- October 27

Posted on October 27, 2010
312 ? Constantine I sees in the sky a vision of the Cross with the words, In hoc signo vinces. The next day he will defeat his rival Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge over the Tiber River and become undisputed...

Dallas lawyer seeks continuance to attend 1st Rangers World Series game

Posted on October 27, 2010
Dallas lawyer Darrell Cook has been a Texas Rangers fan since the team moved from Washington, D.C., to the DFW Metroplex when he was 13. He's been waiting nearly 40 years to see them go to the World Series. He...

Today in History -- October 26

Posted on October 26, 2010
c. 899 ? Alfred the Great,who fought the Vikings and created the first English legal code, dies of natural causes at Winchester. His Doom Book quotes Leviticus: "You shall do no injustice in judgment! You shall not be partial to...

Red Owl, Professor Kingsfield, and Mary Tyler Moore

Posted on October 26, 2010
Over at Conglomerate, Gordon Smith weaves the connections between growing up in Wisconsin, teaching Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, and watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Paper Chase. Turns out that MTM went shopping at a Red Owl...

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Markets seeing inflation ahead

Posted on October 26, 2010
Bloomberg is reporting that yields on the the Treasury's latest 5-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) offering have gone negative for the first time ever. The dollar has also just hit a 15-year low against the yen. Gold is 5% off...

Five stages of grading

Posted on October 26, 2010
Via our colleagues at Legal Writing Prof, a professor takes a look at the progression from Denial, to Anger, to Bargaining . . . . Much of this can be avoided with multiple choice questions. Just saying . . ....

Giving unconscionability some muscle

Posted on October 26, 2010
The doctrine of contract unconscionability was designed to be the contract law version of the Lone Ranger (left). The Lone Ranger, you remember, used to ride about the country like a knight-errant, battling unfairness, injustice, and overreaching wherever he found...

Today in History -- October 28

Posted on October 26, 2010
1538 ? The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tom�s de Aquino, is founded by Papal bull on the island of Santo Domingo. It will close in 1832. 1636 ? A vote of the Great and General...

Thinking about football (soccer) contracts

Posted on October 26, 2010
For those interested in sports contracts, here's an interesting history of contracting practices in Britain's Football Association. FGS

Moral hazard, insurance contract division

Posted on October 26, 2010
Via Marginal Revolution, Tampabay.com has the tale of a town where back in the 1950s and 60s people were amputating their own limbs to get big paydays from insurance companies. The story is not actually as grim as it sounds....

Judge tosses K claim against UPenn for promising Wharton degree

Posted on October 26, 2010
A student who sued Penn's Wharton School of Business for not giving him the degree he said he was promised has seen the second jury verdict in his favor tossed out by a Philadelphia federal judge. Seems that Frank Reynolds...

When you take The Man's money . . . .

Posted on October 25, 2010
. . . you dance to The Man's tune. That's the grim lesson public universities are now learning, as state legislatures facing serious budget issues are trying to figure out exactly what taxpayers are getting for the money they spend...

If you can't stand the Heat . . . .

Posted on October 25, 2010
The NBA's Miami Heat this off-season added LeBron James to a roster that already included Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh. If you want an economist's explanation of why the team will not win a championship, Tyler Cowan at Marginal Revolution...

Today in History -- October 25

Posted on October 25, 2010
1400 ? The father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer dies of unknown causes at age 57. 1495 ? The "Perfect Prince," John II of Portugal (right), dies at Alvor at age 40 after a 14-year reign. Inheriting a bankrupt kingdom,...

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: Annual Contracts Conference in Gulfport, Florida

Posted on October 25, 2010
Jaime Fox (Stetson) sends along this conference announcement and call for papers: The Stetson University College of Law will host the 6th Annual International Conference on Contracts, February 18th and 19th, 2011, at Stetson?s beautiful campus in Gulfport, Florida...

A Streetcar Named "Perspire"

Posted on October 25, 2010
Commuters in Adelaide, South Australia, are steaming. The air conditioners in their trams aren't working, and the summer heat can be brutal. Who's responsible? That will be sorted out in court, where the company who built the air conditioning units...

BU to host conference on fiduciary duties

Posted on October 25, 2010
Fiduciary duties are imposed by law, but their scope is defined by contract. The border between duties assumed by agreement and those imposed by law can get fuzzy. Few legal writers have spent more time exploring the concept of trust...

Entrepreneurship, Cuban edition

Posted on October 25, 2010
The Cuban government is planning on cutting 500,000 employees from the government work force. Given the lack of private enterprise jobs in Cuba, what are those people going to do? Why, go into business for themselves, says President Raul Castro,...

Today in History -- October 24

Posted on October 24, 2010
1147 ? Crusaders led by Afonso Henriquez, Count of Portugal, retake Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege. Afonso will later be named the first King of Portugal. 1648 ? The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end...

Weekly Top Ten--October 24, 2010

Posted on October 24, 2010
Christopher Lewis Peterson (smiling at right) again tops our weekly Top Ten list. It?s been a pretty impressive couple of months for Peterson?his Two Faces paper (noted below) has in less than a month become the third most-downloaded contract-related paper...

Disclaiming warranties in the PRC

Posted on October 24, 2010
Over at China Law Blog, Dan Harris has an interesting discussion on trying to change default rules through standard-form contracts. Not only does it not work so well, it actually can result in fines. FGS

Today in History -- October 23

Posted on October 23, 2010
1456 ? St. John of Capistrano, who gave up a successful legal and political career to preach, and who at age 70 successfully led troops that broke the Muslim siege of Belgrade, dies of bubonic plague at Ilok in Croatia....

Harvard undergrads start new law review

Posted on October 22, 2010
Undergrads at Harvard University are so eager for the law school experience that they?re starting their own law review. The Harvard Undergraduate Law Review has already put out its first issue. The editors hope to get submissions from professors as...

Today in History -- October 22

Posted on October 22, 2010
741 ? Frankish Mayor of the Palace Charles "the Hammer" Martel ? the man who stemmed the tide of Muslim invasion at the Battle of Tours ? dies peacefully at Quierzy-sur-Oise in Picardy. 1633 ? A Chinese fleet defeats the...

San Diego law school in talks with UC-San Diego

Posted on October 22, 2010
California has five public law schools but none of them are in the state's second biggest city, San Diego. That might change in the future, as talks are under way between the private California Western School of Law and the...

Fox Gives Juan Williams $2 Million Contract

Posted on October 22, 2010
Frank blogged about NPR's termination of Juan Williams for remarks he made on Bill O'Reilly's show. In wake of his termination, NPR reports that Fox News has rewarded Williams a 3-year $2 million contract, which includes a guest spot on...

Today in History -- October 21

Posted on October 21, 2010
1879 ? Ecoterrorist Thomas Edison uses a filament of carbonized thread to create one of the most environmentally destructive products in human history, the incandescent light bulb. 1921 ? Famous Players-Lasky Corp. -- owned by Jesse Lasky, Adolph Zukor, Sam...

Interpreting contracts that invoke religious law

Posted on October 21, 2010
Can parties to a contract specify that their obligations will be governed by religious law? UCLA's Eugene Volokh thinks not, relying on a series of cases that prohibit U.S. courts from deciding issues of religious doctrine. He concludes: And I...

Unburned Koran leads to great consideration hypo

Posted on October 21, 2010
The Florida clergyman who did not burn a Koran will be getting a new Hyundai for his forbearance. Terry Jones, the hitherto unknown pastor of a tiny congregation in Gainesville, Florida, became internationally famous when he threatened to burn a...

TJSL's Green promoted

Posted on October 21, 2010
Congratulations to contracts professor Kevin Greene, who?s just been promoted to full professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Greene has been at the San Diego school -- where he also teaches Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, and Music Law --...

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